What better way to celebrate the holiday than by indulging in a treacly piece of Capra-corn? By this of course I mean It's a Wonderful Life, the Christmas movie starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. It's equal parts depressing and uplifting, and it's a great holiday film...if you're willing to forgive it for inspiring a battalion of trite ripoffs on every TV show ever, from Married With Children to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Beavis and Butthead.

OK, I don't really have a good explanation for why I voluntarily viewed this film, except that I read the book when I was younger and it was OK in a crappy, guilty pleasure, only socially acceptable when you're a teenager kind of way. And I was bored. And it was free online. Don't judge.

I know I just watched The Terminator, but hey, Terminator 2 is on the Top 1000 list too, so it doesn't make sense for me to just move onto another random movie. And this one has Edward Furlong in it. In all his pre-lobster-rescuing glory. That's enough for me!

As surprising as it may seem, this is my first go around with the blockbuster juggernaut that is The Terminator. It was kind of one of those film series that I'd always meant to watch but never got around to. It makes our list at #264. Here we go.

Moving along to Boogie Nights, a 1997 ode to porn starring Mark Wahlberg's junk. Is an impressive piece of prosthetic genitalia enough to earn Boogie Nights a position on our list at #536? Yes, apparently so. Does it deserve that spot? I don't know, I haven't watched it yet. I'll get back to you.

The next film on the list is The Black Cat, a 1934 horror film starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. I know what you're thinking. A scary movie from the 30s that has Lugosi and Karloff in it? Surely not! Why, that's as rare a sight as the Loch Ness Monster herself. But there's a reason these two creepers made eight horror movies together and have clocked in probably 500 solo horror movie appearances. They're creepy guys. So creepy, in fact, that The Black Cat earns a position at #969 on our list.

The next film on our list is the Wes Anderson comedy Rushmore, starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray. Despite my suspicion and almost universal dislike of hipsters, I have to admit to liking both Wes Anderson and his films. So there it is.

Hey guys. So while I was finishing up my 50th review, it made me think. This is a list of the Top 1000 movies of all time. I'm not even sure if I've even seen 1000 movies in my lifetime. I mean, I probably have, but who knows?

I return from my Thanksgiving vacation to watch the most American of films from the most American of filmmakers. The next film on our list is Strike (or Stachka, for the commie bastard segment of my audience). It's the first full length film of Sergei Eisenstein, a revolutionary Soviet filmmaker responsible for what we pretentious film historians refer to as the Soviet Montage.

My next review is on a film called Shane, which is a 1953 western starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur. It's the story of a mysterious stranger who comes in and helps some folk stand up to the nasty cattle ranchers who are trying to take over their land. It is placed at #266, something which makes me momentarily question the validity of this list.

The next movie we're watching is A Trip to the Moon (or Le Voyage dans la lune, if you're of the French persuasion), a 1902 science fiction film by Georges Melies. This is the oldest movie on our list by far, and it's sort of Point A in film history. The old girl scores #465 on our list.

Next we'll be watching The Manchurian Candidate, a 1960s political thriller guaranteed to make you suspicious of anyone and everyone...particularly well-bred looking yuppie types with a vacant look in their eye. It clocks in at #367 on our list.

The next film we'll be watching is Sullivan's Travels, a 1941 comedy about a director who takes himself far too seriously and needs a good dose of reality. I am unfazed, as this accurately describes every director I've ever worked with. Regardless, it earns a position of #136 on our venerable list.

No, it's OK, no one have a heart attack. Green Lantern is not on the Top 1000 list, so we all don't need to weep for the future of filmmaking. The boyfriend had me watch it this weekend and I thought What the hell, why not post my thoughts? So without further ado:

This is something that's been floating around in my head for a while. I love Top Whatever lists, and I've been wanting to do one on here. These may not all be movies that came out while I was a kid, but they're certainly the films that dominated my VCR during my formative years. Prepare yourselves for nostalgia overload.So without further ado...The Top 30 Movies of My Childhood

The next movie on our list is Sugar Cane Alley, a 1983 French film about a young, poor boy growing up in Martinique, and his grandmother who is determined that he won't end up working in the sugar cane fields. It's ranked at 797 on the Top 1000 list.

The next movie, which clocks in at #818 on our list, is a 1925 silent film starring John Gilbert as a spoiled rich boy who fights in World War I. Being as familiar as I am with the Great War, I anticipate this being a barrel of laughs. Just kidding. It's probably going to be really depressing. Cheers!

Moving on to the next film on our list, this is Jane Campion's Oscar-winning film The Piano. I have been told that this is an erotic film (to tell the truth, I was told that by Sally from Coupling) and I've also been made aware that Harvey Keitel is one of the two leads. I am having a hard time reconciling these two facts.

The next film is the famous cautionary tale of not letting your boss use your apartment to shag loads of women, especially not if one of the women you happen to be in love with. Although now that I've written all that out, it seems a lot less like a cautionary take and more like common sense. Regardless, this is The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, and it clocks in at #58 on our list.

The next film on our list comes to us straight from 1957 Poland. Kanał (thanks to Smileyman, I now have an "ł") just manages a place on the list at #989. This film details the Warsaw Uprising (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), a major operation that the Polish resistance Home Army launched to liberate Warsaw from the Nazis, only to be brutally suppressed. I anticipate this film to be uplifting, and in no way depressing enough to make me want to throw myself out of a window.

And now for something completely different. The next film on the list is Listen to Britain, a 1942 propaganda film (for those of you who failed your history exams, that's smack dab in the middle of World War II). It clocks in at about 19 minutes, and manages to earn a position at #408. Not too shabby.

The next film on our list is the popular horror classic, The Shining. Released in 1980, this is Stanley Kubrick's screen adaptation of Stephen King's novel. So you know it's going to be kind of f-ed up. It comes in at an impressive #117. I mean, come on, scary deserted hotels, horrible murders, and Jack Nicholson? Sign me up!

Hello! I'm off my crazy work schedule, so you can expect me to be updating this far more frequently. The next film on our list is This is Spinal Tap, a 1984 mockumentary, which is very nearly as often quoted as Monty Python. Which is a lot. Almost too much. Really. It comes in at a rock star worthy 357.

For The Shop Around the Corner, we journey to picturesque Budapest, Hungary with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan (both of whom could not be more Hungarian). Clocking in at #196, this 1940 romantic comedy is an Ernst Lubitsch classic.

Good news. I am not dead. I have been, however, working a job that keeps me out of the house from 7:30 in the morning to 9:30 at night. So finding time to continue watching the Top 1000 films (to say nothing of actually writing reviews) has been…let’s go with “problematic”. After a not so brief hiatus, I decided that I definitely wanted to still do this. Bear with me as I’m working the kinks out. With no further ado, I present Holiday! It's a lovely romantic comedy from 1938 starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, and it earns a very respectable place at #616 on our list.

The next film on our list has adventure, sword fights, true love, and Fred Savage. I'm talking, of course, about The Princess Bride, the 1986 classic starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright. It scores a position at #694 on the TSPDT list.

After a brief hiatus (sorry all, went up to Massachusetts for a few days and just started a new job, so I've been a bit busy), we're back to business with the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive. Considered by Spaniards (and most of the rest of the world) to be a classic, this film clocks in at #226 on the TSPDT list.

We're up to La Jetee today, the interesting short film from France that tells a science fiction story set in the future using only black and white photographs. Directed by Chris Marker, this film came out in 1962, and has secured a place at #142 on the TSPDT list.

The next film on our list is The Thief of Bagdad, a 1940 adventure fantasy based on the Arabian Nights stories. This film won three Oscars (including one for special effects, le shock!) and earns a place at #306 on the TSPDT list.

Moving on to Meshes of the Afternoon. This quirky little experimental film was made by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid (who also play the two characters) in 1943, to the tune of $275. TSPDT put it at #312 on their list.

So Conrad Veidt. He's an actor. A German actor. I know him from Casablanca as Major Strasser, the Nazi guy who gets punked by Humprey Bogart Yeah. This guy:

What I DID NOT realize is the Conrad Veidt is also Cesare. From The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. This guy:

I did not know this. Did you know this? Why didn't anyone tell me? Because this officially made little bits of my brain fly out of my ears. Please, someone tell me that they are as shocked as I am. Because I'm watching him in The Thief of Bagdad right now, and I went to google to find a picture of him, and there were all these pictures from Dr Caligari. And now my brain is dead.